Academy’S Gumiho Is A Magical Genius [EN]: Chapter 7

Academy Gumiho is a Magic Genius – Episode 7

Academy Gumiho is a Magic Genius Episode 7

Colleague (2)

“Oh, my aching back. I’ve finished my morning duties, so I should rest for a bit.”

“Um, my work is…….”

“Oh my, oh my, look at my forgetfulness! The document sorting isn’t done yet!”

“…….”

I tried to talk to a woman in a suit passing by, but she ran away without even listening.

I clearly heard her say she needed to rest for a moment.

At first, I thought I misheard, but it wasn’t just her.

No matter which assistant I spoke to here, there was no response.

They were just busily doing their own work.

Only then did I realize that I was being ostracized.

Is this workplace bullying?

It’s unpleasant, but not as inconvenient as I thought.

That’s because no one is giving me any work.

‘Even if you ostracize someone, you should still give them work.’

Being alone in the large lab with nothing to do made me feel self-conscious and like I was wasting time. I have nothing else to do, so I guess I’ll read a textbook.

I’ve already read all the magic books I borrowed from the library, so I plan to borrow another one on my way home from work later.

The content of the textbook was very solid and systematic.

I guess that’s because it’s a textbook for students. Even I, who has no prior knowledge of magic, can vaguely understand it.

At first, I only intended to read textbooks related to magic, but before I knew it, I started reading every textbook I could get my hands on.

Guardian Studies, Martial Arts Studies, Hunting Studies, and so on. I guess it’s been about an hour since I started reading various genres.

Tap tap.

Someone tapped me on the shoulder.

A completely different feeling from when Bang Seok-hoon tapped me yesterday.

When I turned my head, Nam Hwa-yeon came into view.

“You’re reading textbooks diligently. Are you interested in lectures?”

Her gaze was directed at the title of the book.

The textbook written by Nam Hwa-yeon, [The First Step in Magic]. If my memory is correct, it was the textbook used in her lectures.

The fact that I was reading this textbook must have piqued her interest. Well, even if it were me, I would tap the youngest member on the shoulder and ask questions if they weren’t working and were reading the professor’s textbook.

“No. It’s not that I’m interested in lectures, but I have some free time…….”

“Hmm? You seem to have quite a bit of free time.”

“…….”

There’s nothing I can say to that.

In fact, until yesterday, the atmosphere wasn’t like they were ostracizing me.

There’s only one factor that could have changed the assistants’ behavior so much overnight. It was because of the rumors surrounding me.

Everyone was stunned, saying I was handsome when they looked at my face, but when their gaze went down and they saw my tail, they were frightened and ran away.

I wondered why, so I searched the internet for [Baek Seung-woo], and there were stories about him starting with assaulting and verbally abusing his fiancée, embezzling hundreds of millions of won from the family’s company, and committing indiscriminate assaults.

Of course, there were so many rumors that it was hard to tell what was true and what was false, but everyone started avoiding me, perhaps because the story with Bang Seok-hoon yesterday became a new topic of rumors.

Swaying, swaying~

My tail, which had no idea of the situation, wagged without knowing its owner’s feelings. Anyone who saw it would think something good was happening.

Of course.

Since I don’t have eyes on my back, my tail continued to sway, attracting the attention of people in the faculty room.

The assistants who knew the rumors tried their best not to look, but it was difficult to resist the temptation of the fox tail swaying like foxtail grass. It would be easier on my mind if they openly showed that they liked it.

Everyone was in a situation where they couldn’t do anything because of the rumors surrounding me.

Nam Hwa-yeon, who couldn’t stand watching this, stepped in.

“If you really have nothing to do, would you like to try this?”

Nam Hwa-yeon took the documents from the hand of an assistant who was passing by and gave them to me.

Documents of the same format as the ones I read yesterday.

It was a lecture script.

“P-Professor, that’s the script I was using…….”

“Hey, the youngest member said he has nothing to do. You’re not going to object to what I said, are you?”

“O-Of course not! Hahaha, then I’ll be on my way…….”

The assistant ran away with a smiling face at Nam Hwa-yeon’s words.

It seems like he doesn’t want to get involved with her. I don’t know if she knows that or not, but she tilted her head.

“I wonder why he’s doing that. Does he have to go to the bathroom urgently?”

“……I guess so.”

I got goosebumps for a moment at Nam Hwa-yeon’s nonchalant tone.

Is she asking sincerely? Or is she enjoying this situation?

Whatever the case, I didn’t want to know more, so I vaguely agreed with her and changed the subject.

“Professor, by when do I have to complete this script?”

“I’ll give you three hours.”

“……Pardon?”

Three hours is too tight.

Is there any reason?

“That script. I’m planning to lecture with it this afternoon.”

“…….”

I’m really going crazy.

Yesterday, she forcibly took me to the lecture and made me answer questions, and today she’s making me write a script in three hours.

Could it be that Nam Hwa-yeon, not Bang Seok-hoon, really has a grudge against me?

Many thoughts come to mind, but there is only one thing I can say in this situation.

“I understand…….”

“Okay, then I’ll come to pick it up in three hours.”

She left the lab with a leisurely pace.

As soon as Nam Hwa-yeon left, the surrounding assistants’ gazes turned to me.

They didn’t even pretend to know me until just now.

Sigh, my heart is heavy, but right now, making the script is the priority. I opened [The First Step in Magic] and compared it with the passages written in the script to find the table of contents.

Is it because it hasn’t even been a week since I entered the school? The scope wasn’t wide, and the content wasn’t difficult.

However, the importance of the content was high.

A table of contents that is like a stepping stone to the knowledge you will learn for the next year. The more deeply you learn, the more solid knowledge you can gain from today’s lecture.

‘This seems like a more important mission than I thought.’

If I write the script carelessly, the problem is not just that Nam Hwa-yeon will dislike me, but it may also affect the protagonist and supporting characters.

It hasn’t even been a week since they entered the school, so it’s a time when they need to grow a lot.

If I ruin that time, a butterfly effect may occur. I have no choice but to do my best.

──Swish!

I immediately opened the textbook and studied the lecture range.

The 「Magic Citadel」 suddenly came to mind, but I shook my head.

The world glimpsed by the 「Magic Citadel」 is extremely intuitive and subjective.

It is different from a lecture that students should chew over.

Based on the textbook as much as possible, I wrote down the script within the range I could think of. When necessary, I found papers written by Nam Hwa-yeon and revised and annotated parts that could be applied in an easy-to-understand way.

It wasn’t an easy task, but I didn’t realize how time was passing because I was using my brain a lot.

Around the time I roughly finished and revised it about three times, the lecture time was approaching.

I printed out the script, and Nam Hwa-yeon went up to the lecture hall without even checking it.

Fortunately, she didn’t tell me to stand next to her today.

I felt uneasy and uncomfortable for no reason.

Ah, I should have revised it one more time.

I felt regret.

* * *

A noisy lecture hall.

Perhaps because 17-year-old boys and girls are gathered in one place, the lecture hall where the professor has not yet entered is always noisy.

However, that doesn’t last long once the professor enters.

Chilseong Academy is a global educational institution.

Its status is very high, to the point where it is called one of the world’s top 5 academies by specialized institutions.

In order to live as a professor in such a place, one must have considerable achievements and skills that are no problem even if they jump into the field as an active player. For that reason, professors at Chilseong Academy are inviolable beings.

“Huh? Where did the assistant *oppa* [older brother/term of endearment] who was next to her yesterday go?”

“Oh, crazy, you’re right. I’ve been waiting for this time today.”

“Hey. What’s so handsome about that gigolo style? He looked greasy.”

“Isn’t gigolo the best compliment a man can give to a man? Honestly, even as a man, I thought he was handsome.”

“How fun would life be if you looked like that? I want to be handsome too.”

“You’ll never be handsome in your life. Be satisfied with your current life.”

But today, it doesn’t seem to be the case.

Nam Hwa-yeon, who listened to the students’ conversation, could see how Seung-woo’s appearance affected the teenagers in their prime.

‘Well, a beautiful appearance is bound to win people’s favor in any era or situation.’

Everyone is drawn to beautiful things.

Whether you’re a man or a woman, young or old, being captivated by beautiful things is an instinctive behavior. Even more so if that appearance is devastatingly beautiful.

Then, she suddenly became curious.

Did they know?

Seung-woo’s charm doesn’t just come from his appearance, but from some kind of power at play.

‘It’s not a simple ability like pheromones or perfume. At least an A-class skill, maybe even one level above that.’

The combination of 「Devastatingly Beautiful」 and 「Charm」 was an ability that even the great magician Nam Hwa-yeon would be interested in. Seung-woo himself has never paid much attention to these skills.

She suddenly wondered.

If Seung-woo becomes proficient in using his abilities in the future, what will happen to the students here?

Will they abandon their morals like King Zhou of Shang, who was seduced by Daji [a mythical fox-spirit temptress]? Or will they suffer like Emperor Toba, who had a relationship with Tamamo [another mythical, often malevolent, fox-spirit]?

While she was having fun imagining, she realized that she was standing on the podium in the lecture hall and immediately started the lecture.

“Okay, yesterday I gave you a special lecture that would be helpful to you. Today, open your textbooks.”

Today’s lecture is about ‘Methods and Forms of Handling Magic Power’. It is an important part of the first-year textbook, as it is at the beginning of the table of contents.

Depending on how well you understand this content, your future academy life will be different.

Nam Hwa-yeon opened the lecture script.

The same format and introduction as usual. I asked Seung-woo to write the script on a whim, but it seems like a decent script came out.

At this level, it seems to be similar to the scripts that other assistants usually make.

“……?”

Before reciting the script, her eyes curved into a crescent moon as she scanned it roughly. Nam Hwa-yeon muttered quietly so that no one could hear.

“……This is unexpected.”

I expected a level similar to the scripts made by other assistants, but Seung-woo exceeded my expectations and made a script that I liked very much.

It’s like Nam Hwa-yeon herself wrote the script.

Could it be that he was inspired by the script I lectured on yesterday?

That could be.

The old script that Seung-woo read in the lab was full of Nam Hwa-yeon’s handprints because she made it herself.

“Everyone must have opened page 21 of the textbook. The formula at the top shows how efficiently you can save magic power by substituting the Hernos function into the formula.”

Her lecture was mainly based on the textbook.

Then, when difficult content came out, she made students give presentations to lead a student-led atmosphere.

“Is there any student who can present what kind of disaster will happen if you apply this formula directly to the magic circle?”

“I’m Shin Cheol-soo, number 57 in class 3 of the first grade! Because I applied a formula that was not verified by the Hernos function as it is, magic power will be excessively supplied and it will fail.”

A male student stood up from his seat, calling out his class, number, and name.

At the same time as he stood up, an assistant wrote down his personal information and presentation content.

There are 2,000 students in each grade at Chilseong Academy.

It was a kind of rule to call out the class, number, and name before giving a presentation because it was difficult for the professor to memorize all the names.

“It was a good answer, but wouldn’t self-destruction be a more correct expression than failure?”

When Nam Hwa-yeon snapped her fingers, the formula written in the textbook was reproduced as it was.

Formulas that were crumpled and put into a circular magic circle. The magic circle, which was excessively inflated and looked like it was about to explode, was about to self-destruct as she said.

The same appearance as in the textbook.

All the students watched, expecting the magic circle to explode.

Right then, Nam Hwa-yeon added.

“But there are always exceptions.”

At that moment, everything stopped as if the video was paused.

When she raised her finger, the magic circle also floated into the air. The magic circle floating in the air began to gradually return to its previous shape from the appearance that it was about to explode.

That’s different from turning back time or restoring it.

It was a kind of reassembly.

It brought the previous contents as they were and settled them in a new frame.

“Even if it is not verified by the Hernos function, you can adjust it by substituting it in reverse in the middle.”

A story that contradicts what I have lectured on so far.

The students who were embarrassed by Nam Hwa-yeon’s words checked the textbook.

There was no mention in the textbook that the Hernos function could be substituted in reverse in the middle process. Of course.

This is not content in the textbook, but content only written in the script.

‘It’s difficult content for first-year students to understand, so they’ll probably learn it in the 2nd or 3rd grade in the regular curriculum.’

If my memory is correct, it will probably be included in the second semester of the second grade this year.

To put such content in the lecture script.

It was a foolish act.

This part has a premise that ‘if I hadn’t revised it to suit the level of the first graders’.

‘I boldly cut out some of the content to suit the level of the freshmen. It’s a bit difficult, but it’s not to the point where I can’t learn it.’

To do this in just three hours.

Curiosity and interest welled up from deep within her heart.

Maybe this genius will be able to inject vitality into the professor’s life, which has been tied up because of owing a debt to the chairman.

Because interesting things are bound to happen just by watching him from the side.

While she was thinking about that and continuing the lecture, the students diligently wrote down the content that was not written in the textbook.

That day, the students instinctively sensed it.

I guess I should prepare well for the first midterm exam this year.

Because of whom the lecture difficulty has skyrocketed.